Showing posts with label reaching "Everests". Show all posts
Showing posts with label reaching "Everests". Show all posts

Saturday, June 02, 2007

The Hair Cut!

OK - I'm FINALLY posting this. For those who haven't seen me recently, the hair is gone - really really gone! Here I am, just a few hours before it was chopped off:

And (TA DA!) here I am for Jazzoo, from the front and the side. Yep - it's ALL GONE!

Sunday, May 13, 2007

On Top of the World

On this day in history in 1995, Alison Hargreaves, 33, became only the second person ever to reach the peak of the world's highest mountain without oxygen or the help of sherpas. The British mother of two failed in her first attempt yet still chose to tackle the mountain's notorious north ridge from Tibet.

She reached the 29,028ft (8,847.7m) summit at 1208 local time on Saturday - 0723 in Britain - and immediately radioed her base camp. She wanted to send a fax to her two children, Tom and Kate, aged six and four, at home near Fort William on the west coast of Scotland.
The message was: "I am on the top of the world and I love you dearly."